Quotes about Letting go
What can't be understood and neatly sewn up must simply be let go, not in the way of giving up, but in the way of understanding who is really in control of it.
— Lisa Wingate
Clinging to the past so hard it was like leaving an arrow embedded instead of pulling it out and letting the wound bleed clean, then heal.
— Lisa Wingate
Did the dead still want things? Or was death simply a letting go of all that is held so tightly in life—an understanding of the temporal and shallow nature of the human matters of possession, greed, desire, justice?
— Lisa Wingate
It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
— Maya Angelou
Holding on to anything is like holding on to your breath. You will suffocate. The only way to get anything in the physical universe is by letting go of it. Let go & it will be yours forever.
— Deepak Chopra
Vonnegut could not help looking back, despite the danger of being turned metaphorically into a pillar of salt, into am emblem of the death that comes to those who cannot let go of the past
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
We truly live only one day at a time. It doesn't really help to worry about the future, which we can't control, or the past, which we can't change.
— Philip Yancey
Paul Tillich once defined forgiveness as remembering the past in order that it might be forgotten—a principle that applies to nations as well as individuals.
— Philip Yancey
Paul Tillich once defined forgiveness as remembering the past in order that it might be forgotten
— Philip Yancey
By forgiving, I release my own right to get even and leave all issues of fairness for God to work out.
— Philip Yancey
Though wrong does not disappear when I forgive, it loses its grip on me and is taken over by God, who knows what to do. Such a decision involves risk, of course: the risk that God may not deal with the person as I would want.
— Philip Yancey
nine out of ten people I have had to forgive sincerely do not feel they have done anything wrong. It is up to me to forgive them from my heart — and then keep quiet about it.
— RT Kendall